The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-18
A girl in Rochester, n. Y, was
bDrn with two tongues. She ought
to marry a man with no ears,
The Values Of Vegetables,

All vegetables have an effect on the
chemistry of the body, so that we can
not speak too highly of their Importance
at table. We will mention a few of
these matters first, and dispose of this
aspect of the subject, so as not to seem
to mix pharmacopRia with the kitchen.
Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and
forms part of the cure for rheumatic pa.
tients at such health resorts as Aix-les-
Bains. SOrrel is cooling, and forms the
staple of that s01tpe aatJ herbes which a
French lady viii order for herself after
a long and firing journey. Carrots, as
containing a quantity of sugar, are
avoided by some people, while others
complain of them as indigestible. With
regard to the latter accusation, it may
be remarked, in passing, that it is the
yellow core of the carrot that is difficult
of digestion-the outer, a layer, is ten
der enough. In Savoy, the peasants
have recourse to an infusion of carrots
as a specific for jaundice.
The large, sweet onion is very rich N
those alkaline elements which counter
act the poison of rheumatic govt. II
slowly stewed in weak broth. and eaten
with a little Nepaul pepper, it will be
found to be an admirable article of diet
for patients of studiOus and sedentary
habits. The stalks of cauIiflower have
the same sort of value. only too often
the stalk of a cauliflower is so ill-boiled
and unpalatable that few persons would
thank you for proposing to them to
make part of their meal consist of so
uninviting an article. Turnips, in the
same way, are often thought to be in
digestible, and better suited for cows
and sheep than for delicate people; but
here the fault lies with the cook as
much as with the root. The cook boils
the turnip badly, and then pours some
butter over it, and the eater of such a
dish is sure to be the worse for it. Try
a better way. Half boil your turnip,
and cut it in slices ike half-crowns.-
Butter pie dish. put in the slices, moist
en- with little milk and weak broth, dust
once with bread-crumbs and pepper and
salt, and bake in the oven till it gains o
bright golden brown. This dish, which
is the Piedmontese fashion of eating turn
Ups, is quite unsuited to cows, and ought
to be popular. What shall be said about
our lettuces? The plant has a slight mar
cotic action. of which a French old wo-
man, like a French doctor, well knows
the value, and when properly cooked it
is really very easy of digestion. But in
our country, though lettuces are duly
grown in every garden, you often hear
the remark, Il can't eat salad" and
as few cooks know how to use the vege-
table which has been refused in its raw
state, the lcttuces are all wasted, and
so is the ground in which they were
grown. - From hrs. Reeves Book on
Cookery
The Cochin fowls are big eaters and
not as good layers as the Leghorns. A
British writer says that while his Coch-
in hen was laying two eggs a Leghorn
laid four; and that in the production of
the two Cochin eggs twice as much
food was consumed as in obtaining the
four. He says that three of the Cochin
hens ate as much in q day as q four
month old pig would.
A Vermont sheep raiser SAYS that the
best method of doctoring sheep for
foot-rOt is to wet every foot of every
sheep in the flock, sound or lame, thor
oughly with kerosene or coal oil. and
put what sulphur you can take in the
thumb and finger between the hoofs of
each foot. Keep them in a dry place
for twelve hours. Repeat this operation
in about two weeks, and you viii have
no more trouble.